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Understanding the Registry Provider

The registry provider provides a consistent and easy way to work with the registry from within Windows PowerShell. Using the registry provider, you can search the registry, create new registry keys, delete existing registry keys, and modify values and access control lists (ACLs) from within Windows PowerShell. The commands used in the procedure are in the UnderstandingTheRegistryProvider.txt file. Two PSDrives are created by default. To identify the PSDrives that are supplied by the registry provider, you can use the Get-PSDrive cmdlet, pipeline the resulting objects into the Where-Object cmdlet, and filter on the provider property while supplying a value that is like the word registry. This command is shown ...